Re: How to set a HTTP proxy for sysupgrade

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:23:15PM -0400, trondd wrote:
> On Wed, June 30, 2021 5:28 am, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> > Hello list!
> >
> > I just upgraded one of our lab machines from 6.8 to 6.9
> > (amd64), and our lab environment is closed to the Internet,
> > so using an HTTP proxy is required to reach out.
> >
> > I have set http_proxy, ftp_proxy and https_proxy in
> > /etc/login.conf, the default class, but it is apparently
> > not used by rc.firstboot after sysupgrade.
> >
> > With the new installer in 6.9 rc.firstboot seems to be
> > a background process that hangs because of this, so when I
> > logged in as root after remote upgrade I resolved the stalemate
> > by first killing an ftp job serving fw_update, then a similar
> > download job serving syspatch, and waited until the not updated
> > kernel was relinked.
> > Then I could run fw_update and syspatch manually.
> >
> > Is there a better / proper way to set a HTTP/HTTPS proxy
> > for sysupgrade?
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> >
> > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
> >
>
> I simply echo the export statements of the proxy environment variables to
> /etc/rc.firstime before reboot. The installer will always append to the
> file so fw_update will be added after the variables are exported.

I will try to remember to do that the next time.
Thanks for the hint!

Would that be a welcome addition to the installer to do this automatically?


>
> The ftp process will timeout in, I think, 5 minutes. That is a long time,
> but you're not going to be hung there forever.
>
> Tim.

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB